Not counting non-fiction. Are there any novels, poems, movies etc. that have realigned or punched holes in your political leanings, rather than reinforced them?
Johnny Silverhand did nothing wrong.
Cyberpunk 2077 is better than GTA 5
Atlas Shrugged changed my political beliefs entirely when I read it as a teenager. Real life experience and empathy changed it back again a few years later, thankfully. It’s tough when you’re young, recognizing that the world is flawed and searching for something that might be an answer.
It’s not quite the same because I was never any kind of ardent “pro-nuke” activist, but the movie Threads took me from a position of resigned ambivalence regarding the existence of nuclear weapons to a strong believer in global disarmament. If anyone is neutral on the topic of nuclear weapons, I’d suggest they give it a watch.
Good for you on overcoming Rand’s bullshit worldview. And, yeah, Threads is still terrifying all these years later. That, and When The Wind Blows.
Fun fact about Ayn Rand: BioShock was partly inspired by her philosophy, or rather how disastrous it would be.
Another fun fact about her: at the end of her life, she got financial aid from the government under a fake name.
I read a lot of Robert Heinlein when I was a teenager. After growing up a good little Christian boy, they were quite enlightening.
Bill Watterson was my childhood philosopher.
How do I report this post for hurting my feelings?
Picasso’s “La Guernica”
Children of Men (movie) made me realize/understand the great global despair that comes with human unsustainability.
